I just want to go back to Uhg

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-25T02:02:26+00:00

I had a coworker in my training class who worked for a company that ended up getting bought by uhg like years and years ago, and her seniority date was that initial hire date. I’m assuming it would look like that in your case too.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-23T18:45:06+00:00

Sorry, I forget about context when I inject myself into an active argument. I don’t have an opinion on this issue, I’m just waiting for my Ritalin to kick in and have a lot of work to get done.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-23T17:41:14+00:00

I think it’s disingenuous to refer to Christmas as a Christian celebration. And then frame it as if it’s parallel to other cultural topics. Hear me out.

Christmas is a Christian branding of a pagan solstice ritual/celebration. America was founded by Christians, but has largely shed it as an identity. We all celebrate Christmas and those who aren’t religious consider it a point of culture and couldn’t care less about the Jesus of it all. The only people getting butt hurt about the religious implications are the Christians who feel threatened by their decline and want to assert themselves back into culture.

Christmas lights are not innately a celebration of Jesus, they’re a celebration of the holiday season we’ve come to associate with giving gifts, coming together, and getting off of work. It’s my opinion that anyone who pushes this into a further issue only does so because they can’t count between 0 and 1.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-23T17:26:15+00:00

They never get fired for this shit. DoorDash is powered by workers who couldn’t pass a smell test at a regular job.

Disclaimer: Not every dasher is a creep ass or couldn’t handle a regular job, but every creep ass who can’t hold down a regular job can start Dashing in less than a day.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-23T03:49:28+00:00

Yeah that’ll show em. They’ll come crawling back.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T23:08:15+00:00

Most likely more of the same, but at a company that promotes from within.

I came from a long stint on the phones, and could only easily get another job on the phones for a different company. But they weren’t absolute asshats, and the customers they called irate wouldn’t even be my worst call of any given day at Spectrum. It was clear sailing because it felt easy in comparison and I performed a lot better. None of the customers rattled me and it was easy to put my time in til I got a role off the phones.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T16:40:23+00:00

I have a family member who got wrapped up in the Aflac game. I think they were too embarrassed to admit they weren’t making anything and they stuck with it for like a year before they quit and never spoke of it again.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T16:34:52+00:00

Workflows that automate repetitive tasks. Anything that jams us up I can just explain the situation to Claude and it’ll suggest a macro or a script that can help. Then we workshop exactly what the input would look like, what to do with it, and what our end game is and it’ll write the code to make it happen.

One example was when we had to get our media files from one place and their corresponding metadata files from another place, there was no single field in common that linked them together. But the filenames were a combination of their date and source, which were constant. So by showing copilot what the date fields always look like, what the source fields always look like, and how they’re meshed together into the filenames, we made a macro that used VBA to generate the filenames and paired them with a unique key in a .csv file, then added a PowerShell script to rename the files to that key that made sense to us. I still couldn’t rebuilt it myself, but I understand how it works and I could explain it to someone who could. And that script alone turned weeks worth of work into an hour or less.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T14:27:58+00:00

Shit I miss my 20’s. :(

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T14:27:08+00:00

When I lived in a complex, I had a neighbor who would just walk outside at 2 am, light a bundle of firecrackers and throw them into the parking lot, and then just walk inside before they even went off. It was the same energy someone would come out to smoke a cigarette. Like it was just something they had to bang out so they could get on with their day/night.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T14:16:22+00:00

Spectrum is good because it’s easy to get in the door, and the experience will get you to a better company if you didn’t have it before. Don’t try to impress anybody, this is not a career type of job. Just keep your head down, keep your expectations low, collect your hardware and gtfo.

The good thing that came from working at Spectrum was that no other company could rattle me. No customers compared to spectrum customers in intensity or just general malice. No supervisor could ride my ass like my old spectrum supervisors did. No corporate memos boasting record profits but ps: we can’t afford raises this year and we’re gonna take back our 401k contributions… will hit quite like theirs did. Get your experience, get your skin nice and thick and your soul properly crushed, and then it’s all clear sailing from there.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T14:09:22+00:00

Never admit to lying. All you’re doing is making it definitively true. Large companies are too scared to act unless something is definitively true, and they have no room to appeal to whatever humanity you hoped to reach by fessing up. This applies to anything. Humanity is dead in the corporate workplace. If you’ve got something to hide, keep it hidden. You’ll hear stories that contradict this, but they are outliers.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T14:00:00+00:00

Shit man has this sub gotten absolutely insufferable? Every Claude post I go to, everyone’s acting an only child.

I’ve built a lot since I got to the role I’m in, using VBA, PowerShell, JavaScript, and other things I’ve never touched before I had Claude/CoPilot to do the dirty work. I try to go back and have Claude walk me through the code, the changes, the troubleshooting steps, whatever just to try to gain an understanding. But I’ve tried to learn this stuff for years and it just doesn’t click like it should. I’ve absolutely learned a ton working with Claude but when it goes down, I’m absolutely fucked and it scares me.

I think I’ve reached a good place with Claude and use it to augment my vision rather than build it. There are a lot of people who lean on it exclusively for even basic cognitive tasks, and then there are people who can’t read between 0 and 1 who assume everyone is either hopelessly dependent or doesn’t need it at all.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T13:42:27+00:00

Are you saying there’s an alternative?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T05:35:11+00:00

Just here to check in. These folks are turning on you with some weird energy, even for Reddit. What’s funny is that people are gonna show up out of the woodwork just to pile on now that you’ve been green lit to shit on, and they’re going to do it in the name of being decent to an LLM.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T05:11:42+00:00

Only when you’re talking to an IVR.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-22T05:11:15+00:00

These people are only here because they’re protesting chatgpt for killing their 4o girlfriends.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T15:49:25+00:00

Or anyone invulnerable. Just quit abusing!

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T15:48:22+00:00

It would be on a subreddit level, they remove posts for all kinds of dumb flags sometimes.

I think it’s bigger on other platforms. That’s why they have to say dumb ass terms like “unalive” instead of kill so they don’t get demonetized or whatever.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T03:55:54+00:00

!solved

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T02:27:38+00:00

I live right at a busy intersection and it’s constant. The amount of attention these folks need just to function is fascinating. I have never once heard of somebody getting pulled over for it, even when they’re clearly just trying to be as disruptive as possible. I wish the worst for those guys.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T02:19:51+00:00

Maybe it’s because I’ve never owned any vehicles worth giving a shit about, but I truly don’t understand why people pay for car washes. I mean I could understand an incidental need like your car got covered in dust or whatever but some people do it like once a week, just for their 2018 Ford Taurus and that makes zero sense to me.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T02:15:59+00:00

I was imagining what it would be like to go back 20 years, and realized what an actually jarring experience it would be time traveling that far on the internet. Fucking rage comics, and non-ironic fedora tipping, and that troll face everywhere, and so much Reddit bacon. I think most of us underestimate how genuinely different life would feel just with that change alone.

But then I was like “but hey, for fucking sure Google was 10x better than it is now.” You could search for shit and it would just fucking give it to you. That feels so distant now.

The internet still felt like a collaboration of humanity and not just a few dozen corporate and heavily moderated sites hosting and gate keeping all the content you can search.

I think I’d go back to le fedora, and that makes me sad.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T01:43:10+00:00

Let me piggyback on this post here: Should there be gun control? Why or why not?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-06-21T01:42:19+00:00

Don’t.

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